Learning Theories - E-book - ePub

Sitting inside a class, one student finds it easy to absorbinformation while another struggles with it. While one learnermay excel in a particular subject another may do well in allthe subjects. Trainees go through the same training to begraded differently according to the level of information theyhave absorbed and the understanding they show. Learning is acomplex process. It takes years for a person to understand certain subjects andhe still works his way out of life with limited informationbecause it is difficult to imbibe the overwhelming amount ofknowledge present in the world today.
Depending on how information is absorbed, processed andretained, a number of learning theories have been formulatedwhich help us understand the process of learning in individuals. A number of factors decide the manner in which knowledge isacquired or information is processed by a person changingtheir views on certain subjects and forming new views aboutcertain things. Learning is related with different parts of the brain which playsan important role in processing any information that we receive.
Every individual processes the information differently based ontheir strengths and weaknesses. Educational psychology endeavors to gain an understandingabout the different behaviors of an individual to a piece ofinformation. This is used in analyzing the type of learning thatcan affect the individual the most. Different schools of thoughts are available for finding out howeducation and information is absorbed by a learner.
This booksaims at exploring the different learning theories that currentlyexist and understanding the roots of the theory and gaining aninsight into the reasons why these theories exist.